Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five I. A. T. S. E. men were carted off to hospital with cuts, bruises, broken bones. When the striking unions, all affiliated with American Federation of Labor, protested against the strikebreaking activities of I. A. T. S. E., also an A. F. of L. member, and demanded nation-wide picketing and boycott of cinema theatres, A. F. of L. President William Green replied that the strike was "not authorized." Ever alert to win converts, John L. Lewis promised the strikers the full support...
...would offer smaller chance for buck-passing and lobbying than the old Senate & House. Too wise last week to be disillusioned so soon, he had reason to be disappointed. Last January he asked only one favor of the new Legislature: that it forward his pet scheme of a nation-wide system of TVAs by voting to link Nebraska's three big hydroelectric systems. A bill to accomplish that object died-in committee, killed by a deal between its friends and foes. That has led to a widespread suspicion that with only 43 legislators now to be persuaded instead...
...commercial enterprises, the Hot Club of France and the New York Hot Club, have repressed a few scarce swing classics for their members. But the commercial record companies are chiefly interested in making and selling new records, and the hot clubs are composed of amateurs uninterested in administrative detail. Wide open, therefore, was the place which a brand new Hot Record Society undertook last week to fill...
With the annual duel and the "grand finale of wide and handsome shooting" as highlights, the pistol team will hold its last meeting of the year tonight at 8 o'clock in Memorial Hall...
...kill it, save it, substitute for it, and impersonate its one-logged doctor, occupy the full two and a half hours. Starting with so limited a topic as a cat and restricted in locale to the sun-deck of a yacht, the play nevertheless spreads out over a wide range of situations. One indication of this is the names of the songs. They're all rather good, but slightly outstanding is "Totched in the Haid and Smitten in the Heart", and really superior is "Ten O'Clock Town", for which the boat momentarily becomes a little Victorian village, with lights...